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[SOLVED] Pacman slow download speed (random-hero.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone!

I'm experiencing troubles when installing and updating dependencies via pacman, download speed is waaay too low like 30-40 kb/s. I've tried reflector and rank-mirors, I even moved mirrors from another machine where everything works well but nothing helped.

As far as I can tell it's not a slow internet connection problem, because when I download torrents the speed is good (up to 7 megabytes per second).

How can I troubleshoot this?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Show us your reflector conf and your mirrorlist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Furthermore, check your mirror's status here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

They seem to be synced

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[pinkolik@acer-laptop ~]$ cat /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf 
# Reflector configuration file for the systemd service.
#
# Empty lines and lines beginning with "#" are ignored.  All other lines should
# contain valid reflector command-line arguments. The lines are parsed with
# Python's shlex modules so standard shell syntax should work. All arguments are
# collected into a single argument list.
#
# See "reflector --help" for details.

# Recommended Options

# Set the output path where the mirrorlist will be saved (--save).
--save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# Select the transfer protocol (--protocol).
--protocol https

# Select the country (--country).
# Consult the list of available countries with "reflector --list-countries" and
# select the countries nearest to you or the ones that you trust. For example:
# --country France,Germany

# Use only the  most recently synchronized mirrors (--latest).
--latest 5

# Sort the mirrors by synchronization time (--sort).
--sort age
[pinkolik@acer-laptop ~]$ cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
################################################################################
################# Arch Linux mirrorlist generated by Reflector #################
################################################################################

# With:       reflector @/etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf
# When:       2023-07-22 13:21:47 UTC
# From:       https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/
# Retrieved:  2023-07-22 13:21:47 UTC
# Last Check: 2023-07-22 13:16:12 UTC

Server = https://london.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.ubrco.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://archlinux.mailtunnel.eu/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.f4st.host/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.tmmworkshop.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
[pinkolik@acer-laptop ~]$

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe you should uncomment the country option, and specify your country and a few close to you. Latest synchronized, doesn't mean they are close to you.